Magic Half Hour lets you see 8 of the 10 brightest stars

11:20 AM,
May 1, 2014

Written by

Pam Eastlick
For Pacific Daily News

Welcome to the best stargazing skies on the planet. But before I tell you about them, I thought I'd briefly mention something that happened last Tuesday. There was a solar eclipse. We didn't see it here, but the unusual thing is that neither did anybody else to speak of.

It was an annular eclipse, which isn't that unusual. The moon was closer to Earth than it usually is and there was a ring of sunlight around the moon. But you had to travel some distance to see totality for this one because it only occurred over Antarctica. I hope the penguins enjoyed it!